I am not yet home in Seattle from the Midwest after attending the first SICA-USA Board retreat during my tenure as Chair. It was also the first Subud gathering at CoPlay in Muncie, Indiana. I wanted to relate some of my perceptions of the retreat, last weekend with...
If you’re wondering who that partially-clad woman is modeling in a wine commercial, it’s longtime Subud member Maya Waterman showing that one needn’t lose one’s joie de vivre just because you’re in your 80s. Check it out: Maya talked about the wine commercial, her...
The SICA-USA Board Retreat is becoming realized thanks to the hard work of the board, our National Helper Liaisons and others who appreciate true culture. More details are to come, but even though the retreat officially starts tonight (Friday, May 20, 2022)...
In this conversation Sanderson Morgan talks with Bachrun LoMele about design and his new prints. Magazine Illustration, ca. 2003 Morgan: After you graduated from Art Center and U.C. Santa Cruz as a young man, you went to New York City to work as an...
PREPARATION Exactly a week before our beautiful one took flightI dreamt of a strange bright-colored birdextending rose branches from it’s tailWe tried to catch a glimpse, racing from pane to pane as it sped by I painted the creature the next day as the dream was so...
Please do not miss this Zoomuse Poems for Peace with Ann Graham Walker. Please bookmark our Zoomuse Poems for Peace page. https://youtu.be/qq4ddWFgpkw This is a video “teaser” for Ann Graham Walker’s upcoming SICA ZoomMuse Poetry reading on...
Theme for the Eulipions Written by Rahsaan Roland Kirk and accompanied by Gil Evans on piano By Daniela Moneta Rahsaan Roland Kirk plays the piece above that he wrote in 1976 for his album The Return of the 5000 lb. Man, a Warner Bros. recording. The word, Eulipion,...
Ann Graham Walker is the next Zoomuse Poems for Peace featured reader on Thursday, May 19 at 11am PDT/ 2pm EDT. She has written some amazing poems about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Visit our SICA Zoomuse Poems for Peace page. This series is a collaboration with...
SICA-International has this event THIS WEEKEND: A day full of workshops, discussions and impulses. They are briefly introduced before all workshops begin so please bethere at 9am EST. You can offer something spontaneously on the same day. We expect up to 4 sessions in...
Ann Graham Walker is the next Zoomuse Poems for Peace featured reader on Thursday, May 19 at 11am PDT/ 2pm EDT. She has written some amazing poems about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Visit our SICA Zoomuse Poems for Peace page. This series is a collaboration with...
When Adelia MacWilliam, Andrew Hall and I re-focused Zoomuse as Poems for Peace last September, we had no idea Europe would be plunged into war the way it has two months ago by Russia’s invasion and genocide in Ukraine. This month on Zoomuse Poems for peace we...
Save the Date: JUNE 22, 2022, 8:00 PM. Location will be announced very soon. David Schepps, Cello Kenn Wagner, Violin The Atanta Musicians’ orchestra. Featuring the World Premiere of ‘Un Pasto con Luciana e Mario’ – a concerto for violin, cello...
What a remarkable weekend it was March 4-6, 2022 as the Subud Archives interview project began in earnest in Seattle. Along with Benjamin Boyce your humble narrator had the huge privilege of discussing how longtime members found Subud, became members and articulated...
YouTube video of Sharon Thesen’s SICA ZoomMuse Poems for Peace poetry reading held on January 20, 2022. This event is part of a monthly series of ZoomMuse Poetry Reading of Poems for Peace, co-sponsored by SICA-USA and SICA Canada. On February 18, 2022 at 11am...
This in today from Victor Wuamett: “Jorji” goes live on Spotify and Apple today, as Ezra Bell returns to live performances tonight at the Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City. (just touting Ben Wuamett as usual-check it out, there are some great songs on it) You...
Zoomuse Poems for Peace returns Thursday, January 20, 2022 with Sharon Thesen. The Zoom Meeting link on Jan 20 is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81799264950 Meeting ID is 817 9926 4950 The time on Jan 20 is: – 11 a.m. Pacific time – 2 p.m. Eastern time – 7 p.m. UK time – 8...
As we struggle through another wave of the Novel Coronavirus, it is clear that SICA-USA’s blog played a small part in helping to keep Subud members (& others interested in art that has a deep spiritual connection) connected. Our statistics reveal a 32%...
Dec 20, 2021: THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH VIDEO OF ROB LEWIS’S READING. (See below.) Join us on the 3rd Thursday of each month for Poems for Peace. January 20, 2022 BC poetry legend Sharon Thesen joins us. The Zoom Meeting link on Jan 20 is...
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